The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Audiences & Institutions
The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug is a soon to be released movie this year 2013, it's a hybrid genre of epic fantasy & adventure. A second installment to the three-part film series based from the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien's, the first installment titled, "An Unexpected Journey" was released last year and the last one "There and Back Again" is set to wrap up by 2014. These films are a prequel to The Lord Of The Rings series directed & produced by the same man, Peter Jackson.
Rating-PG 13, Release Date-December 13, 2013, Format-Colour/2D/3D-48 frames per second, Running Time-170 minutes
The 5 stages of Film production:
- Development: The screenplay for the book (The Hobbit) gets written and financial cost for the entire movie is sorted out.
- Pre-Production: Things needed for the shoot is made ready, locations are selected and sets are built, cast and film crew gets chosen.
- Production: The process of taking the moving, recording shots.
- Post-Production: point at which any added sound, editing, visual effects are placed in.
- Distribution: this part is of great importance to the movie's profit, at this point different methods would be taken to spread out information about the movie so as to make it's profit around the world.
Director:Peter Jackson, known for directing movies like: Lord of The Rings (2001-2003), King Kong (2005), Lovely Bones (2009), The Frighteners (1996), Dead Alive (1992), Bad Taste (1987)
Producers: Peter Jackson, Carolyn Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Frank Walsh
Screenwriters: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
At the Development stage, the producer is to work with the screenwriters to create a synopsis.
Location:
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- United States
Cast:
- Ian McKellen
- Martin Freeman
- Richard Armitage
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Evangeline Lilly
- Orlando Bloom
- Lee Peace
- Luke Evans
- Ken Stott
- James Nesbitt
Budget- each film's budget was estimated to cost $150 million each, the cost for the trilogy has however been said to cost about $561 million so far.
Music by Howard Shore, Cinematography by Andrew Lesnie, Editing by Jabez Olssen
Studio- New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributor-Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio- New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributor-Warner Bros. Pictures
Gender-Male & Female Audiences, Ethnicity- A film for all ethnic groups
Age Range 10(13) and upwards
Fan Base: Will intrigue fans of Lord Of The Rings trilogy and Fantasy based films
An agreement has been made between Warner Bros and New Line Cinema, that the film's world premiere would not take place in Wellington, New Zealand as this was the previous premier location. So the film's world premiere is set to take place in Los Angeles, America on the 2nd of December.
Promotion: USA- Denny's Restaurant; Hobbit Menu, Merchandise- Blanket, Phone cases, replicas, games, magazines, Social Media-Free: this could be a Below-The-Line Advertising by fans, Posters-could find them printed on the bus, Trailers, Backstage Exclusives/ Behind the scenes footage for the niche audience, Cupcakes, Tattoos, Clothes, Phone Apps & Wallpaper= specific advert to the niche audience, Fan events, Book sales, Fan competitions, Viral videos/ Swede, Forums, and making deals with different companies.
AS THEY ARE TARGETING A WIDE AUDIENCE, THE PROMOTIONAL METHOD WILL ALSO BE WIDE.
Trailer:
Plot: "The hobbit Bilbo Baggins, along with the wizard Gandalf and the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield and his twelve companions, leave the Carrock after the events of the previous film. They continue east to the edge of the forest of Mirkwood where they encounter the skin-changer Beorn. Gandalf departs before the others enter Mirkwood where they are attacked by giant spiders and, except for Bilbo, are captured by Wood-elves. Bilbo helps the dwarves escape from the elves and they follow the forest river to Lake-town, where they meet the Master of the town, and Bard, a bowman and the descendant of the original Lord of Dale. After acquiring a boat and supplies from the town the company travels to the Lonely Mountain. They eventually find the hidden door into the mountain and Bilbo enters and encounters the dragon Smaug.
In the meantime Gandalf leads the White Council to drive the Necromancer out of Dol Guldur. Gandalf enters Dol Guldur where he discovers the true identity of the Necromancer. The elves of Mirkwood, led by King Thranduil and his son, Legolas, must battle the orc invasions from Dol Guldur" -SOURCE: Wikipedia
And that's that, hope you go see the movie after learning all this information, IT IS A MUST WATCH...SO DON'T MISS OUT!!!
